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Originally posted by eroswebmaster
And the Bible has gone through many changes and many translations, books have been added and dropped...read about the apocrypha.
inspired is one thing...but written by is another..and it was written by man.
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I know about the Apocrypha, you special ed student, I'm reading 'Lost Christianities' right now. And I agree it was written by man and is full of shit, but I'm NOT a christian. If you want to be a christian you have to follow the Bible and you have to believe it's divinely inspired, otherwise you're just some vaguely spiritual person, but you're not a christian.
and when they say inspired they don't mean like he gave them the idea. They mean that every syllable in that book comes directly from God and is set to the page by man. The book is infallible, if it's not the whole basis for the religion falls apart. And if you don't follow the book religiously you are NOT a christian according to christian theology.
no way you know about the Apocrypha and can't grasp this simple fact.
One more thing: almost all the books in the Apocrypha are even MORE anti-woman and anti-sex than the books in the official canon. Most of them disapproved of sex even in marriage.